GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| outmoded | not being in style |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |